Maud Miller Buxton Family Papers, 1891/1962, bulk 1891/1947

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Buxton Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Summary

Extent:
0.50 Linear Feet
Creator:
Buxton, Maud Miller, 1881-1985 and Miller, Malcom Howard, 1857-1933
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Buxton Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Background

Scope and content:

Letters, legal and business documents, photographs and news clippings of Maud Miller Buxton and associated families of Miller, Buxton and Ditterick. Maud Miller was born in North Dakota and eventually moved to McMinnville, Oregon via Minnesota. Correspondence spans her early childhood through her marriage to Henry Thurston Buxton and Frank Ditterick. Most letters concern family news. Includes commencement invitations, marriage invitations and clippings of marriage announcements and obituaries. The photograph album appears to cover the 1920's. Loose photographs appear to be members of her family and are undated. A small group of letters to her father, Malcom Miller, is included.

Biographical / historical:

Maud Miller Buxton was born in North Dakota, daughter of Malcom Howard and Louise Pahl Miller. She lived in Wisconsin and Perham, Minnesota before moving to Forest Grove, Oregon by 1904, where she was a servant in the Henry T. Buxton Family (1910 census). She married Henry T. Buxton, who was almost 30 years older, by 1913 and Frank Ditterick by May 1946. She passed away in 1985 in Mcminnville Rest Home, Oregon. Per the 1910 and 1930 census, she was a servant in private homes.

Processing information:

Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in March 2011. Processing completed by Anne Johnson in September 2014.

Arrangement:

Series organized by type of material.